Design Documents

• See ICU Processes and Procedures
  

Globalization / ICU

• Using ICU Workshop (pdf) (Sample Code)
• An Overview of ICU (pdf)
  
• Globalizing Software
• A Rule-Based Approach to Number Spellout
• Getting Started with ICU
• Java Cookbook: Creating Global Applications
• Efficient Text Searching in Java
• Getting Java ready for the world: A brief history of IBM and Sun's internationalization efforts
• Localizing with XLIFF and ICU
• Collation in ICU 3.0
• An ICU Library Supporting the Display of Complex Text
• International Calendars in Java
• International Text in JDK 1.2
• The Java International API: Beyond JDK 1.1
• Text Boundary Analysis in Java
• Unicode and IBM Websphere (doc) (ppt)

Unicode

• Unicode Overview
• Forms of Unicode: UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32
• A brief introduction to code pages and Unicode
• BOCU: Binary-Ordered Compression for Unicode
• BOCU-1: A MIME-compatible application of BOCU
• Character Conversions and Mapping Tables
• Compact Encodings of Unicode
• Globalizing eBusiness: Unicode and XML
• GB 18030: A mega-codepage
• Transforms in ICU
• Optimized Unicode Composition and Decomposition
• From UCS-2 to UTF-16
• What size wchar_t do I need for Unicode?
• Binary string comparison with UTF-16
• Migrating Software to Supplementary Characters
• Optimizing the Usage of Normalization
• Folded Trie: Efficient Data Structure for All of Unicode
• Analyzing Unicode Text with Regular Expressions (ppt)

Java / C++ / JavaScript

• C++ Report Papers: Garbage Collection, and the Anatomy of an Assignment Operator
• Adding internationalization support to the base standard for JavaScript

Demonstration Help Documents

These documents are provided to assist with using ICU's online demonstration tools

• Converter Explorer Help
• Data Library Customizer Help
• Transform Demo Help
• Transform Demo Rule Help

Configuration Documents

These documents are provided to assist set up and configuation of an IDE for working with ICU

• How to configure Eclipse for working with ICU4J
• How to configure Subversion Repository Access on Windows

Unindexed Papers

New documents may not show up on this page. You may find them in the following directories:

• Papers
• Workshop 2000